The legal tussle between The New York Times and OpenAI has taken an unforeseen turn. Lawyers representing The New York Times, along with other newspapers involved in the lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, are accusing OpenAI of unintentionally erasing a week’s worth of search result data. The legal actions allege that OpenAI and Microsoft have infringed on copyrighted news stories to train the AI model, ChatGPT.
This omission of search result data by OpenAI engineers adds another layer of complexity to an already high-profile legal battle over the use of copyrighted materials in AI training. The implications of this action and its potential impact on the ongoing litigation remain to be seen.